Golden | Abita Brewing Co.

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Notes / Commercial Description:
Golden is a crisp, clean continental lager. Just four ingredients are all it takes: American malt, Mt. Hood hops, German lager yeast and pure Abita Springs water. As the name implies, Abita Golden has a brilliant gold color. Its flavor makes this light lager the perfect match for Louisiana Creole food.

User Ratings & Reviews

Reviews by Pegasus:

3/5 rDev -6%look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Pours a medium golden color with a very modest white head that soon completely vanishes. Contrary to what other reviewers have reported, this sample has extremely poor head retention with almost no lace, decent carbonation. Otherwise this sample seems quite normal, it came from an Abita Seasonal 12-pack.

Aroma is quite subdued, a little malt and some sharp grain flavors. Taste is initially slightly sweet and malty with stinging carbonation, rises to a tart and slightly sour finish. Not a bad beer, just a bit lacking in character. Best if used by date of 11/18.

Very pale yellow and clear, low carbination. Poured with alot of head that mellowed out to a very thin, almost non-existant coating. Not too much scent, you can catch a drift of lemon... Taste is not strong in any flavor, a very light flavored beer. Good session beer. Slight taste of citrus, taste of water, nothing really jumps at you. The body is very light with good drinkability.

Taste: Light to medium in body with a smooth crisp grain that goes a bit bready with some malty flavour. Hop bitterness is there to balance off the sweetness and adds a light spicy bite to the brew. Lingering residual sweetness fades into the after taste as well as some grain.

Notes: Just some down right easy drinking here, an excellent brew to pair with spicy Szechwan or some Creole that has been kicked up a notch. None the less your all around dependable beer to drink without thinking about what you are drinking.

12 oz bottle pours a chill hazed, golden amber body that exhibits lively carbonation in the glass. Impressive, snow-white head is two fingers tall and drapes the body like a blanket. Head retains well, and deposits plenty of island chain lace on the sides of the pint glass.
Aroma is grainy malt and a pleasant note of floral hops.
Mouthfeel is light to light medium, and the carbonation is playfully high.
Taste has a crisp, biscuity maltiness, that becomes bready as it warms. Some noble hops add a welcome floral hops bittering balance. Well balanced, overall. Finishes clean and even.
Very attractive beer that is clean, crisp, and very drinkable. One of the better Abita brews to my taste. A nice session beer. Thanks to BigLove for the opportunity to try this one.

12 ouncer sampled, does have best before dating but good luck trying to figure it out. Pours very light amber, moderate bubble whie head. Cabadgy nose. This one, I found to be thin and watery and lacking in most departments. Limited in complexity and interest in general, expensive, lawn mower libation at best

Overall: My first beer in New Orleans post Katrina had to be from Abita, the brewery I have drunk so often when rooting on the Saints. This version is a very sessionable lager that is borderline pils. Nothing too fancy, but a good light beer that I could have a six of.

This was from a sampler case I got at Shangy's. I drank it in a pilsner glass. Date clearly notched on the label. No date on the case.

Pours a slightly hazy straw yellow with a one finger head of white foam. The head quickly drops to islands and a ring, but decent lacing observed.

Aroma is clean, bready pilsner malts and a hint of spicy hops to boot. At first there is a smell of DMS, but that eventually disapates.

The first flavor is light, bready malt sweetness, then a light hop bitterness, followed by a faint peppery hop flavor. The aftertaste is clean pils malt. The flavors in this are delicate, but pleasant.

Mouthfeel is crisp and refreshing, with a proper level of residual sugar for the style. Carbonation is low to medium. Finish is crisp and clean.

This is a worthy example of the style. Crisp, refreshing, wqith a nice light malt base. Tasty beer.

Appears a pale fizzy golden only a few shades lighter than the Abita Light, a standard crystal clear pale Helles style lager look with a bit more fizzy carbonation that a German version. Lacing is sporadic and light as the thick bright white head quickly dwindles down to a collar. Aroma light two row bring out cereal grains with a touch of honey sweetness, more biscuit pale malts really are nice here with a touch of Hallertau herbal hop bouquet. Flavor is creamy smooth and crisp with those biscuit malts really coming out in liquid cereal nature with a smidge of finishing herbal hops to add in that signature hop burp. I'm sure they sell a ton of this around the brewery, but I see why it doesn't get much attention up this away. It's only incrementally better than your standard BMC, mouthfeel is still light syrup with tickling carbonation that really effects the back of the throat. Drinkability is downright effortless yet not complex enough in flavor to keep me coming back again and again, pretty damn boring.

Golden yellow transparent pilsner body; head is swift in its descent and thins to a partial white... Hallertau hops noticeable and metallic malt is present,...predicatble, but not annoying...slow, effervescent bubbles... creamy, soft palate with a late malt kick... crisp, soft rather unobtrusive flavor... golden, yes--consistent in its modesty and a true member of its style...

Pours a hazy golden body topped by a quick to dissipate white head. It keeps an alright collar but maintains very little surface covering and leaves no lace. The aroma is minimal with just some light maltiness. The body is light with a very fine bubbled, moderate carbonation that leaves it quite smooth in the mouth. The flavor is a lightly sweet, somewhat husky, and mildly tangy malt that's well balanced with hop bitterness. Finishes dry with a gently lingering maltiness. This is a light, minimally flavored, crisp and clean, easy drinking beer that would fit in nicely at tailgate parties and BBQ's. It's certainly not a Munich-style Helles as suggested in the listing here.

12oz bottle poured into a pint glass. Pours a pale golden yellow color with a fizzy white head. The aroma is pale grainy malt and a touch of spicy hallertauer hops. The taste is clean and crisp with the typical light lager flavors. Mouthfeel is light bodied and prickly from the carbonation. Overall, this is a decent lager that is very refreshing but nothing special.

Pale, sickly yellow in hue, dull and the lack of animation only amplifies this notion. The white head was a slight half finger in height at the zenith but it quickly faded to a soapy cap. The appearance is completely unimpressive, an adjunct free lager of this nature, IMO, should have a richer color. The subsequent lacing was almost nonexistent. The nose is distinctly Abita (or Iowas Millstream as both breweries beers smell identical to me). The yeast strain these two brewers use is obviously German. This beer has soft notes of grain, malty like a typical but decent macro lager. Luckily the hints of lemon, flowers, and hay increase the likeability of the bouquet. Moderate potency. Decent. The palate is very well crafted; it is much tastier than the nose indicated. The appearance screams, macro lager, but my tongue detected a good amount of hops (for the style). Lemon, hay, and grass upfront. The bitterness is moderate but firm enough to balance the malt profile ideally. The malt adds some sweetness, its bready as well. Clean finish. Simple tasting but very pleasant; I liked it. Medium in body, low carbonation, the mouthfeel is pleasant. The beer is very drinkable and I am sure it would be a hit the with B/M/C crowd. It is nothing I need to seek out again in the future. Still, thank you Morris729 for the bottle!

Hazy, dull gold, faint hops and some grassy notes on the nose, blah. Grainy malts, some earthy tones, slightly watered down factor here. The taste of day old biscuits, even some adjuncts, very thin and chalky. Finishes with a carbonated, just sipped champagne feel; wet cardboard left on the palate. Next time, punt.

A light straw colored ale that is thin in body and no lasting head after initial pour taste is flat and not impressive and on the hoppy side. Drinkable only in the sense of being low in alcohol content and not very refreshing. Worth a try at a beer festival but otherwise not a great overall impression.

Pours out to a 1 inch head that falls to a 1/8 inch layer. Minimal lacing. Pale gold-yellow color. Aroma is a clean hit of grass, lemon, and light graininess. Flavor is a muted mixture of clean, pale malt and noble hops with a slightly spicy and biscuity finish. Mouthfeel is super light and well carbonated. This beer is what most american "light" lagers should be, light, but with a decent malt and hop character and a clean crisp finish. The labeling now mentions it is brewed in the style of a Munich helles. It's not exactly there but close enough to draw such a comparison.